Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...representatives, usually Governors General or Governors. In the case of the remaining colonies, real power flows through these lines; in the case of the independent nations, the power is purely theoretical, and in practice the Prime Ministers name Governors General. Because ambassadors represent heads of state, and the Queen in most cases is head of state, Commonwealth nations use High Commissioners as representatives from one to another...
Though enormously popular in her Afro-Asian realms, Elizabeth II clearly cannot excite the same veneration or project the same mood there that she does in Britain. Shortly after Ghana's independence, Prime Minister Nkrumah substituted his own picture for the Queen's on postage stamps. He explained disarmingly: "Many of my people cannot read or write. When they buy stamps, they will see my picture -an African like themselves-and they will say, 'Aiee, look, here is my leader on the stamps. We are truly a free people!'" Other African leaders have given fair warning...
Unity & Continuity. Because the Commonwealth itself is new, the Queen's role in heading it is new, and is thus a task demanding far more sensitivity and stamina than the easier chores of many another monarch who ruled the Empire. She clearly sees travel as a major method of ruling. But even when she is at home in London and serving as Queen of Great...
Wonderful Time. Her brothers, John and Lionel, also honored the family onstage. But even John, whose liquid offstage escapades lent gaudy luster to a theatrical generation, recognized amber-eyed Ethel as queen. With her, both boys were always chastened-properly formal and respectful. "My God!" exclaimed a friend after attending a typical family dinner. "Don't you know each other...
...Never since Queen Victoria came to the throne more than a century ago," whooped London's Sunday Express, "has Britain been so buoyant, so prosperous." Britain's export boom broke new records in May, and came within a hairbreadth of bringing the long-coveted balance of trade. Last week the government announced that May exports reached an all-time peak of $866,300,000, leaving a trade gap of only $4,200,000, the lowest recorded since the government began keeping figures in the mid-19th century...